Saturday, July 19, 2014

We took a day off from shooting landscape and capturing
lightning and visited Out of Africa located near SedonaAZ.Sandy used her new Sony A7r with the new FE
70-200 while Don used his Phase One DF/IQ160 medium format camera and a
Schneider 240 LS lens.While both of us
had our Really Right Stuff Monopods Sandy ended up shooting almost exclusively
handheld while Don averaged about 50% handheld and monopod.Don also used the new RRS long lens support
for the 240 LS and found it easy to shoot handheld while adding a great deal of
balance to the monopod.

24-hours old and weighs 70 pounds

Sony A7r FE 70-200 (200mm)

f/8 1/250 ISO 50

Phase One DF/IQ160

240mm f/8 1/400 ISO 50

Phase One DF/IQ160

240mm f/8 1/400 ISO 50

Sony A7r FE 70-200 (95mm)

f/8 1/250 ISO 50

All images were opened in Capture One Pro where they were
evaluated for clarity and sharpness before being saved in a Photoshop fie for
processing.Once in Photoshop CC the
files were all treated to "Shake Reduction" found under the filter
section (some needed the attention while others didn't).

Sony A7r FE 70-200 (123mm)

f/8 1/250 ISO 50

Sony A7r FE 70-200 (70mm)

f/8 1/250 ISO 50

Phase One DF/IQ160

240mm f/8 1/250 ISO 50

Phase One DF/IQ160

240mm f/8 1/250 ISO 50

We were fortunate to see and capture a small herd of Zebras,
Giraffe, as well as a Rhino, a White Tiger, Masai Cattle and other
critters.

Sony A7r FE 70-200 (200mm)

f/8 1/250 ISO 50

Sony A7r FE 70-200 (200mm)

f/8 1/250 ISO 50

Sony A7r FE 70-200 (200mm)

f/8 1/250 ISO 50

Sony A7r FE 70-200 (200mm)

f/6.3 1/250 ISO 50

Sony A7r FE 70-200 (139mm)

f/8 1/250 ISO 50

A quick note on using medium format to capture
wildlife.We've stated previously that
wildlife do not pose.The Phase One DF
sometimes gets a bad rap for being notoriously difficult to autofocus in a quick
environment.Don will admit that it did
"hunt" at times however the subject was also coming quickly towards
him; in the end it all worked out.

Sony A7r FE 70-200 (97mm)

f/8 1/250 ISO 50

Phase One DF/IQ 160

240mm f/8 1/200 ISO 50

Phase One DF/IQ 160

240mm f/7.1 1/200 ISO 50

Sony A7r FE 70-200 (200mm)

f/8 1/250 ISO 50

The images shared here are a combination of cropped and
actual full frame; and we aren't going to share which this time as we'd
like to see if you can figure it out; of
course it helps shooting with 36-megapixel 35mm full frame and 60-megapixel
full frame medium format cameras.

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